Friday, June 25, 2010

Simple Player - A very simple HTML5 audio player plugin for jQuery

What is Simple Player

Simple Player is a jQuery plugin that allows web developers to control audio files on their webpage. Supports style up via CSS. All browsers that supports HTML5 audio tag that allow mp3 or ogg format supported by this plugin.

I wrote this simple player plugin to replace the traditional flash player. There is no need to use flash (load flash plugin consumes much more memory extra) in some cases if you want to play a simple audio file.

Usage

The jquery.simpleplayer.min.js file should be added to the head section of the HTML file after the jQuery JavaScript file. Below is how to include the JavaScript file using an absolute path, relative to the server root.

I am working on a monitoring system, and often ones forgets to look at the visual indicators. A "beep" from time to time (based on certain flags) would improve a lot the user experience (and software usefulness).

Is there anyway you can show us the css that can be used to style this player? It would be nice if there was a demo and more ways to customize this player and more ways to handle the media and video support. Volume control. I guess basically everything on your to-do list :P

HI there Jay,this is a great plugin. I have one question though, I need the player to start autoplay... but it only works if I remove class="player" from ... but that makes the player invisible. Anyway that it could start automatically AND keep the controls?

This might be a real newbie question, but with this player, could you play/pause, and also click on the progress bar to navigate through the track? That would be my ideal scenario. Well actually, ideal scenario would be play button on the right hand side but i'll live without that if need be.

I'm also wondering if it would be much of a hassle to change the rounded corners of the player's profile to make them square edges?

for me, play/pause, and click to navigate on the progress bar are the perfect basics.

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